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This company just had it’s IPO and became public not too long ago and as you can read they hold data on 85% of the world’s prescriptions which means of course they sell a lot of data too.  When you look at the IMS executives, very little in clinical backgro…

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One thing we all hate is the high prices we pay in the US today for our prescriptions.  Sure we do get some discounts, but that too has become an effort in algorithmic shopping to click here and click there to get the best price.  It shouldn’t have to be that…

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This should come as no surprise and I kind of wondered myself when this would rear it’s ugly head being the privacy advocate this blog forced me to be:)  I say that as I never planned on being a privacy advocate but things happen and when you understand data …

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Fortune put it right out in their article on why IBM was purchasing Truven Analytics, for the data.  When companies acquire more data we all pretty much may know what goes next, more “big data” scoring and selling with consumer data.  I’ve been writing about …

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Heck Acxiom and LexisNexis will do anything to make a buck and just make our lives miserable.  So now it sounds like they have hospitals convinced they need this data as well.  It’s bad enough with insurers for goodness sakes with all their data analytics and…

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